Have you heard Sir George allude to them at all, Miss Eve?" "It would be great affectation for an Englishman to deride the fire- works of any dry climate," said Eve laughing; "and I dare say, if Sir George Templemore has been silent on the subject, it is because he is conscious he knows little about it.

To which delay the writer alludes with provoking severity.

So it stands in the Fenwick note; but it should evidently read, "The following stanzas allude."Ed.]